Wiltshire Music Centre

Wiltshire Music Centre is a 300-seat concert hall in Bradford on Avon and has been described as having ‘the finest acoustic outside London’. The Centre puts on approx. 100 concerts a year including critically acclaimed artists such as Claire Martin OBE & Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, Courtney Pine , John WilliamsImogen Cooper CBE and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and many more. Wiltshire Music Centre Trust Ltd is an independent charity run by a small team of 10 employees, who are supported by a team of approx. 85 volunteer stewards.

Wiltshire Music Centre opened in 1998, built with funding from one of the first National Lottery grants for art projects; £1.74 million towards overall design and build costs.

The first event to take place at the Centre was the BBC Radio 4 Any Questions? programme in January 1998.Any Questions? returned to the Centre on 1 July 2011 with Billy Bragg, Deborah Meaden, Shaun Woodward and Steve Webb as panelists.

The Princess Royal opened the Centre on 29 April 1998 and the first concert was performed by international pianist John Lill on 7 March 1998. In May 2004, the Trust was invited to a reception at Number 10 Downing Street to celebrate outstanding achievements in the arts.

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